maintain awareness of its environment for a long period of time. Additionally, knowledge-intensive agents must be engineered such that their knowledge can be easily updated as envi...
Background: Experimental studies of gene expression have identified some of the individual molecular components and elementary reactions that comprise and control cellular behavio...
A rational agent adopts (or changes) its goals when new information (beliefs) becomes available or its desires (e.g., tasks it is supposed to carry out) change. In conventional ap...
Abstract. Object-oriented language concepts have been highly successful, resulting in a large number of object-oriented languages and language extensions. Unfortunately, formal met...
Abstract. We discuss language architecture for the Semantic Web, and in particular different proposals for extending this architecture with a rules component. We argue that an arch...
Ian Horrocks, Bijan Parsia, Peter F. Patel-Schneid...